I navigated to a thread, and up the whole page changes to one of those fake Windows Explorer screens with a “virus check” and a message that I need to install a virus to save me from all the other viruses.
Wtf, SDMB. Wtf.
And another thread is giving me a “This website wants to install the ‘Remote Data Services Data Control’” info bar.
Goddamit, you greedy money-grubbing bastards who bought the Reader, wtf have you done.
Pop ups like that usually are generated by something you’ve already been infected by.
Yeah, it’s not us nor the ad – it’s being triggered by the ad software on this site but you got the cookie somewhere else.
Please elaborate. A cookie I got from another site identifies me as a mark, and it’s causing the ad software on this site to send me to spyware sites, but not anyone else??
The calls in the ad software trigger the malware on your computer to go to those other sites.
This is built into the bug you picked up and it’s not from us at all; the ads on this site are merely the means that initiate the response.
The logic of writing malware that activates itself only when viewing otherwise innocent ads on one specific site… eludes me.
Cite?
Just to establish a bit more accuracy which side (you or SDMB) is at fault, it would be a good idea to sweep your system with your favourite antispyware program just in case the ads do interact with something weird on your system.
Do you know where you picked up the malware? No. You thought you got it from here. And there are probably other sites that carry those otherwise innocent ads, which would trigger if you visited them too. Yet you still don’t know where you got hit by the original malware; if you manage to clean it off, you might accidentally visit the same site you picked it up originally, and pick it up again unknowingly. Until the ads trigger it again elsewhere.
There’s the logic. Hide the source of the original infection by making you blame some other site, and gather repeat “customers.”
Malwarebytes did find some objects, but I won’t browse the SDMB with IE to find out if it solved the problem.
There is little reason to maintain that it was malware causing this except to think SDMB is incapable of contracting with shady advertisers. It’s very simple for the scripts inside ordinary ads to cause these kinds of messages. I browsed a few other sites with IE (although not too extensively, I mostly use Opera), and never seen this happen.
There’s little reason to think that anthing but malware on your computer was the culprit. I use IE exclusively(oh, sure, laugh about it) and have never had this happen. And I’m on this Board perhaps a few more times per day than you.
you see ads here??? :eek:
You can’t believe other posters that you have something redirecting your browser? Even after something was found?
It only takes one compromise to redirect you.
yep. No pop-ups, but some ads.